{"id":164597,"date":"2026-08-01T07:41:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=164597"},"modified":"2026-10-20T20:58:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T03:58:03","slug":"just-like-mona-lisa-reveals-teaser-trailer-casts-chika-anzai-as-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2026\/08\/01\/just-like-mona-lisa-reveals-teaser-trailer-casts-chika-anzai-as-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Like Mona Lisa Reveals Teaser Trailer, Casts Chika Anzai as Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">A teaser trailer for the <strong>SHAFT<\/strong>-produced <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2026\/06\/16\/shaft-to-produce-just-like-mona-lisa-anime-adaptation\/\"><em>Just Like Mona Lisa<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(<em>Seibetsu \u201cMona Lisa\u201d no Kimi e.<\/em>) TV anime adaptation has dropped, along with some main staff and cast details.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><strong>Chika Anzai<\/strong> (<em>Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle<\/em>&#8216;s Asuka Nishino, <em>Lycoris Recoil<\/em>&#8216;s Chisato Nishikigi) is voicing Hinase Arima, the protagonist of the story who, unusually for the setting&#8217;s denizens, has yet to choose their gender despite passing the typical age of doing so. Directing the anime is <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?s=apocalypse+Hotel\"><em>Apocalypse Hotel<\/em><\/a>&#8216;s<strong>&nbsp;Kana Shundo<\/strong> (also <em>Luminous Witches<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Princess Connect Re:Dive<\/em>&#8216;s assistant director).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300e\u6027\u5225\u300c\u30e2\u30ca\u30ea\u30b6\u300d\u306e\u541b\u3078\u3002\u300f\u30c6\u30a3\u30b6\u30fcPV\uff5cAnime &quot;Just Like Mona Lisa&quot; Teaser Trailer\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a0C6icMZaiw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">The other revealed staff members are <strong>Nobuhiro Sugiyama<\/strong> (<em>March Comes in Like A Lion<\/em>) as character designer and <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/10\/19\/interview-anime-composers-yasuharu-takanashi-yuki-hayashi-makoto-miyazaki-on-creating-music-and-dealing-with-writers-block\/\"><strong>Yuki Hayashi<\/strong><\/a> (<em>My Hero Academia<\/em>) as music composer. Sugiyama also has the chief animation director credit.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><em>Just Like Mona Lisa <\/em>is based on a manga by <strong>Tsumuji Yoshimura<\/strong>. The anime&#8217;s synopsis reads:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Hinase, the main character who continues to live genderless. Childhood friends Ritsu and Shiori, who have already chosen theirs. What is &#8220;love&#8221;? What does it mean to have something you want to cherish above all else? Their classmates and the adults around them struggle and hesitate alongside them, weaving the story together. What choice will Hinase make?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">The source material is serialized on Square Enix\u2019s GANGAN Online and released its 10th and final volume in 2022. Manga Up! has it in English under the title <em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>Gender of Mona Lisa<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <em>The Gender of Mona Lisa<\/em> anime website<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teaser trailer for the SHAFT-produced The Gender of Mona Lisa TV anime adaptation has dropped, along with some main staff and cast details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":164602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1053,10],"tags":[12669,330],"class_list":["post-164597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-feature","category-anime","tag-just-like-mona-lisa","tag-shaft"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Just-Like-Mona-Lisa-teaser-trailer-screenshot.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-GON","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164597"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171556,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164597\/revisions\/171556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}